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BC had to move on, minister says of federal health care deal
British Columbia’s Health Minister Terry Lake says the province’s decision to sign a bilateral health care deal with Ottawa is the best it can do given the … […]
Month: February 2017
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“Dying, I Don’t want to be There When it Happens”.
Finally, when heroin was legalized in 1998, $450,000 was left in the kitty which I donated to the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, to establish … […]
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ABB and Prof. Laurent Drissen of Université Laval honored with 2017 Synergy Award for …
QUEBEC, Feb. 20, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ – ABB announced today that its collaborative partnership with Université Laval for the SITELLE project as well … […]
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Canadian researchers struggle to access popular laboratory species
A story in the on-line publication National Observer last year highlighted what appeared to be a significant rise in the use of laboratory animals in … […]
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Enigma Biomedical Group Signs Research Agreement with McGill University Research Centre for …
… for Studies in Aging said: “The ability to visualize and quantify tau in the brain will facilitate therapeutic research in the field of Alzheimer’s disease.”. […]
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Former finance minister says budget can’t be balanced
Former Saskatchewan Finance Minister Rod Gantefoer says the province … Facing a budget deficit of, at last update, $1.2 billion, Saskatchewan will know … political science at University of Saskatchewan’s St. Thomas More College. […]
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Development of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery Predicts Significantly More Morbidity
… care system as a whole,” said Jean Abboud, MSc, a medical student and research assistant at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, in Ontario. […]
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Risk tool could reduce unnecessary cardiac diagnostics by thousands, says UBC-led study
While there were Canadian patients enrolled in the study at three sites — University of Ottawa Heart Institute and two other medical sites in Quebec … […]
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Researchers Brief Parliamentarians on Neurological Conditions that Cause Significant Economic Burden
OTTAWA, February 16, 2017 – Mr. John Oliver, MP (Oakville), Chair of the Parliamentary Health Research Caucus and Ms. Carol Hughes…welcomed two outstanding Canadian neuroscientists to Parliament Hill… […]
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Ottawa researchers kill brain cancer in mice with combination immunotherapies
Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa found that a combination of drugs known as SMAC Mimetics and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) amplifies kill rates of cancer tumour cells in laboratory testing. […]